Rene Denfeld
Hardcover | Pages: 233 pages Rating: 3.95 | 17699 Users | 3360 Reviews
Point Of Books The Enchanted
| Title | : | The Enchanted |
| Author | : | Rene Denfeld |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 233 pages |
| Published | : | March 4th 2014 by Harper |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Magical Realism. Fantasy. Mystery. Adult |
Explanation Toward Books The Enchanted
This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it, but I do. The enchanted place is an ancient stone prison, viewed through the eyes of a death row inmate who finds escape in his books and in re-imagining life around him, weaving a fantastical story of the people he observes and the world he inhabits. Fearful and reclusive, he senses what others cannot. Though bars confine him every minute of every day, he marries magical visions of golden horses running beneath the prison, heat flowing like molten metal from their backs, with the devastating violence of prison life. Two outsiders venture here: a fallen priest, and the Lady, an investigator who searches for buried information from prisoners' pasts that can save those soon-to-be-executed. Digging into the background of a killer named York, she uncovers wrenching truths that challenge familiar notions of victim and criminal, innocence and guilt, honour and corruption-ultimately revealing shocking secrets of her own.Describe Books In Favor Of The Enchanted
| Original Title: | The Enchanted |
| ISBN: | 0062285505 (ISBN13: 9780062285508) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Nominee for Shortlist (2014), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Fiction (2015), Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Fiction (2014), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2016) |
Rating Of Books The Enchanted
Ratings: 3.95 From 17699 Users | 3360 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books The Enchanted
I am kind of embarrassed - I really thought this was going to be a fantasy novel. I try to avoid reading the synopsis of books so that I am surprised - thus, I judged this book by its cover and it's name. So, lemme tell you - this is not a fantasy novel! I would say that it is a cross between The Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption. But, not quite as good.I liked the story okay, but I am not sure I got what the author was trying to do with the way she wrote it. At times, I had troublethis is a grim and haunting story that takes place in a crumbling, but still occupied, prison. the narrative is shot through with threads of magical realism which ordinarily would be employed as contrast to lessen the horror of the surroundings, but here these flourishes frequently intensify the bleakness. i'm going to refrain from talking about the book's overall message because death penalty stuff always brings out the cranks on both sides of the issue, and ain't nobody got time for that. but
Many years ago I went to the theater to see a movie called "Dead Man Walking." One of the few movies I have seen that I had not read the book first, I am however, a big Susan Sarandon fan and tried to see all movies in which she took part. Anyway this was an emotionally powerful movie and I knew the other in the theater felt the same way because at the end of the movie there was dead silence, for quite a few seconds and than everyone rose to their feet and clapped. After reading this book I had
I can't finish this book. Having lost a loved one , a victim of a robbery , it's too difficult for me to sympathize with these prisoners, no matter how beautiful the language or the message . I should have trusted my intuition that this was not going to be for me.
Every once in a great while, a book enters my life and quick like ivy, its words and images rise and twist around my imagination and intellect. Rene Denfeld's extraordinary debut The Enchanted is one such book. I feel compelled to push it into everyone's hands, saying, "You must read this. You simply must." It's been nearly two years since the last time I read something that made me ache to shout it from the rooftops--another debut by an Oregon writer: Amanda Coplin's The Orchardist. Yet, these
This book was not at all what I expected, and it utterly blew me away."This is an enchanted place. Others don't see it but I do."When you think enchanted places, the last thing that comes to mind is an ancient prison, but that is where this beautiful book takes place. It is narrated by a prisoner on death row, where the prisoners are kept in an underground dungeon of sorts. The narrator cannot speak, but he sees and envisions incredible thingsgolden horses who run hard beneath the prison
What matters in prison is not who you are but what you want to become. This is the place of true imagination. Rene Denfeld, the author of The Enchanted, has the heart of a warrior and the soul of a poet. She has written a novel about identity, understanding, the roots of crime, the reality of prison life, the possibility for redemption, and the ability of people to use imagination to rise beyond the purely material to the transcendent. There are three primary and several very strongly written
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